The BEST episodes of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers season 1
Every episode of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers season 1!
Welcome to The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers guide at TV Tome. Produced and created by Robert Mandell, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has a fantastic concept. In 2086, two peaceful aliens journey to Earth seeking help. In return for Earth's assistance, the aliens share the plans for the planet's first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to open the doors to the stars. With this new technology in hand, a team of unique individuals are assembled to protect Earth and its allies. These courageous pioneers - committed to the highest ideals of justice - set out to preserve law and order across the new frontier. The show began airing in September 1986 as a series of sixty-five 30-minute cartoons, running five days a week. Since then, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has reached cult status, sparking a loyal following. This visionary series combines elements of Westerns, space opera and a sword and sorcery style of fantasy. The well-developed plotline and captivating characters, which pushed the boundaries of children's programming in the '80s, are sure to excite loyal fans as well as a new generation of science fiction and animation enthusiasts. The series was one of the first anime-style shows to be created, storyboarded, voiced and produced in the United States and was animated in Japan by the famed Tokyo Movie Shinsha. This action-packed cartoon series also features the vocal talents of the late Jerry Orbach, Bob Bottone, Laura Dean and Earl Hammond. Galaxy Rangers Ho!
#1 - Marshmallow Trees
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/20/1986
While introducing Kiwi marshmallow trees to the planet Grana, the planet's two suns have an adverse effect on the trees, making them complete their entire cycle of growth in one night, not to mention being 100 times their normal size. The planet will be over run by the trees if a special breed of locusts aren't used to destroy the crop. Unfortunately, the residents of Grana don't think the locusts are a good idea at all. It turns into a free for all, as everyone commandeers everyone else's vehicle trying to stop the Rangers from releasing the locusts.
#2 - Scarecrow's Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/10/1986
Niko and Goose travel to Tarkon after being summoned by Maya when entire villages of frozen, lifeless people are discovered. The Scarecrow is behind it and he is seeking immortality once again. The Scarecrow takes over Maya's mind which gives Niko the perfect excuse to have a good old scrap with her.
#3 - The Magnificent Kiwi
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/21/1986
The Queen hires Killbane to destroy the Kiwi defense shield because she has learned the remaining members of the Gherkin race are hiding there.
#4 - Birds of a Feather
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/13/1986
Miller and Moxy, who has apparently gotten over touching the Poe Mutant sensation doll, sneak into Longshot, after the Supertrooper Juice. This episode has the entire rogue's gallery chasing after Bubblehead the Memory Bird, who has accidentally been downloaded with the Supertrooper Juice formula. The Queen wants it; Jackie Subtract wants it; Daisy O'Mega wants it; the Black Hole Gang wants it; and especially, the Rangers want it back.
#5 - Edge of Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/3/1986
The Rangers are leading a strike team against the Black Hole Gang at Entropy's Edge, a black hole or wormhole of some sort. During the battle Goose, after knocking out the power source of the Black Hole hideout, is dragged into the black hole. His charge goes nuts and finally he gets spit out at the other end of the wormhole into the Empty Zone. He crashes on Ozark and wakes, unable to control his morphing. Drawn by Annie Oh's cries for help as she is attacked by a Dinosaur and Goose morphs into a monster in order to save her. Annie tries to shield him from the people of Ozark, who have no tolerance for off-worlders, until the other Rangers track him down.
#6 - Armada
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/6/1986
Lazarus Slade has outfitted the Queen's armada with hyperdrives, and they are advancing on Earth. Using her powers, Niko is able to find out that the Starstones powering the drives were manufactured by Captain Kidd. Goose and Niko track down Kidd at the old homestead , while Zach and the BETA fleet try to find a weakness in the Crown Armada.
#7 - Badge of Power
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/11/1986
Lazarus Slade and Mogul combine their forces to create a badge that will duplicate all of the Rangers' unique gifts, stealing the data needed from the BETA computers.
#8 - Aces and Apes
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/7/1986
The Rangers stop on Mesa to repair Space Tug 4, which was pulling a ship outfitted with an experimental Andorian engine that would render current drives obsolete. A space time distortion opens up, and through it comes a mysterious object, which hits the experimental vessel, and both crash on Mesa. The UFO turns out to be Scarecrow. He takes over a riverboat casino gambler, and teams up with Lazarus Slade. Slade is only interested in getting the new drive, while Scarecrow is after immortality.
#9 - Mindnet
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/16/1986
Killbane breaks into Longshot and steals one of the component's of Mindnet, a device that induces psi abilities, for the Queen of the Crown.
#10 - Scarecrow
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/31/1986
A malevolent spirit is harvested along with the crops on the planet of Grana, and it's up to the Galaxy Rangers Niko and Goose to stop the "Scarecrow" before he sows the community's destruction.
#11 - The Power Within
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/26/1986
Nimrod grabs the Rangers out of hyperspace, and makes them play his version of the most dangerous game, without their badges. They have to make do as normal, human Rangers.
#12 - Lady of Light
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/17/1986
Mogul the Space Sorcerer summons a powerful entity from a pneumonic universe in order to provide him a power source that would make him the most powerful sorcerer in the galaxy. However, he loses control of the entity, and the Lady of Light crash-lands on a planet in the frontier. She loses her crown of power and begins to lose molecular cohesion. If she doesn't return home soon, the resulting explosion could destroy two universes. Goose, Niko, and Waldo try to avert disaster. Naturally, Mogul and Larry follow to stake their claim on a pneumonic power source.
#13 - New Frontier
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1986
The Ranger's first assignment takes them to Tortuna to find information on the missing humans.
#14 - Traash
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/2/1986
An extremely aggressive, insectoid new race, the Traash, is blowing up everything in its path (including the Crown destroyers) and Captain Kidd is the only one who knows anything about them. All he has to do is give a little whistle.
#15 - Space Moby
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/24/1986
The Rangers are sent to rid an asteroid belt of giant space whales. But they end up in the middle of a fight between "SpacePeace" and a madman, consumed with a vengeful desire to destroy the whales forever.
#16 - Renegade Rangers
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/29/1986
The Rangers pretend to go bad in order to infiltrate the Black Hole Gang, who are going to try to attack the Longshot research facility. Goose is charged with keeping Daisy O'Mega, the leader of the group of outlaws, distracted after she makes it plain she is attracted to him. They are planning a trap at Longshot, but MaCross, who wanted Daisy for himself, and hates Goose anyway, finds out the plot and mucks up that plan.
#17 - Buzzwang's Folly
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/18/1986
Lazarus Slade has once again teamed up with the Queen of the Crown, and once again they plan an assault on Earth. This time, however, the Queen gives him 500 Plagos for the attack. Plagos lack the good sense God gave sheep. But they might have been successful if they hadn't come up against BETA's brilliant defensive minds. Yes, thanks to an android double of Premier Dutch dispensing knockout gas, Buzzwang, his food dispensing android buddies, the Ambassadors and the Kiwi kids are minding the store, and it's up to them to save the world.
#18 - Rogue Arm
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/5/1986
The Queen launches a special psychocrystal through hyperspace. It manges to gets on board a new ship of the navy that the Rangers happen to be taking on its maiden voyage tour of the solar system. The crystal takes over Zach's arm, and uses his lifeforce to power itself as it constructs a body out of servo droids. The Rangers have to stop it before it kills Zach.
#19 - Showtime
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/14/1986
The Kiwis and Andorians, on their way back from a Federation Conference, discover The Orion Flying Circus and Rodeo Show, lead by Wild Bill Krebb, and have no idea they are meant to be part of the act.
#20 - Heartbeat
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 12/11/1986
Back on Tarkon, where the Tarkonians live under a strict belief that technology is ill-fated and its use forbidden among its people, Ranger Walter "Doc" Hartford is trying to convince King Spartos to heed his warnings. Doc has brought information stating that the Queen of the Crown is mounting an attack on Tarkon and that the only thing that can save them is to awaken "the Heart of Tarkon."
#21 - Promised Land
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 11/19/1986
Daisy O'Mega and Maya of Tarkon team up to buy weapons on Mesa to outfit the Tarkonian rebels, and discover someone is arming the natives, and it will turn into an all-out range war if the Rangers can't stop them.
#22 - Battle of the Bandits
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 11/26/1986
Nimrod's back, this time as a Rock singer in a group called the Slaver Lords. But the Queen catches him, and gives him real Slavers for backup singers. She wants to snare all the humans attending the Battle of the Bands, an interstellar rock contest. Larry steals some of Mogul's henchman to form a band, and the Rangers go: moussed, blow dried, and teased within an inch of their lives.
#23 - Rainmaker
Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 11/24/1986
About an inventor who creates a machine that can create rain.
#24 - Westride
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 11/21/1986
The planet Ozark is joining the League, and a land rush is organized for the territory for settlement. Daisy and the Black Hole gang are trying to rig the race. Also in the race are Annie Oh, Roy and Burro, and Cody "Wildfire" Carson, who have teamed up to try for the three best claims according to the survey map Roy managed to get hold of.
#25 - Horsepower
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 11/27/1986
Doc and Niko are drawn to a planet in the Empty Zone by a mysterious psychic force. The natives of the world believe Voyager to be a god called Hopi who will help them survive the radical weather changes. It turns out the Queen has a weather control device station on the planet.